Multimedialization of news agency production focused on infographical service

In the era of digitalization and internet, news agencies are attempting to use all available instruments in the best possible quality to provide information effectively while stressing out accuracy, clarity and understandability. Especially for this reasons, multimedia service forms an integral part of news agency production. Using the advantages of various tables, graphs, diagrams or multidimensional animation, readers can be easily informed about current events and affairs and they are able to watch those events that are unlikely to be captured on a video. This work deals with the process of multimedialization of news agency production with examples of infographical service. In theoretical part, it ruminates over following aspects - the term of multimedialization, activity and functioning of news agencies and production of effective information graphics. In its practical part, it describes the production of infographics in the Czech News Agency, both in present and in history. The quantification of infographical production in years from 1992 to 2011 and its interpretation is also offered in this work